News Editor, Front Page, Huffington PostHuffingtonPost.com

THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED

About the Huffington Post:

The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 50 million monthly unique visitors (comScore November, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, and Italy with Japan and more scheduled to launch in the coming months.

About the Role: Front Page News Editor, HuffPost

The Huffington Post is looking for a news editor to publish content, follow news, and write headlines on our widely-read front page.
HuffPost's homepage updates constantly and features a diverse range of stories from all of our verticals as well as other sites around the web.

Requirements:

? Be passionate news junkies, familiar with all of the web's top news sites and blogs, and with current national politics and business news
? Be obsessed with the social web and finding news through Twitter and Facebook
? Be comfortable in a fast-paced, creatively demanding work environment that requires meticulous attention to detail
? Have a keen sense for how to make news compelling using images, headlines, and other publishing elements
? Have extensive knowledge of social media sites and ideas about how to engage HuffPost's reader community in the news of the day
? Be knowledgeable about the content and headlines typically featured on HuffPost's front page
? 2+ years experience in online journalism, very strong writing skills, eagerness to learn and take risks
? Schedule would be 5PM-1AM Tue-Fri and then 10AM-7PM Sat